"The essays in this volume cover a wide array of topics related to the work of Merrilee and Wesley Salmon. They include scientific explanation, rationality, inference and induction, social behaviour, philosophy of physics and biology. Some of them are written with an eye on the history of the ideas concerned. The volume is completed by a long commentary on the papers written by Merrilee and Wesley Salmon."--BOOK JACKET. "The book is addressed to scholars and researchers in various fields, including philosophy of science, epistemology, philosophy of the natural and social sciences, history of contemporary philosophy, and inductive logic."--BOOK JACKET.